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by George Orwell

82,453 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

12 Members: Moomin_Mama, enrique_molinero, Mithalogica, aulsmith, Oct326, Cynfelyn, ahef1963, ByronDB, kdemetter, paulamaine, dianeham, TheCottonShoe

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,923 members

528 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, kageeh, JqnOC, ahef1963, raperper, TheTowers

3

by Upton Sinclair

11,722 members

129 reviews

3.8

6 Members: kageeh, lahochstetler, DorsVenabili, ByronDB, CorinneT, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,188 members

774 reviews

3.9

6 Members: Oct326, anthony_barker, Cynfelyn, ahef1963, ByronDB, dianeham

5

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

10,878 members

120 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: Oct326, Percevan, Cynfelyn, jeffza, ByronDB, paulamaine,raperper

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by Hermann Hesse

27,966 members

381 reviews

4

6 Members: JqnOC, SonoranDreamer, ByronDB, CorinneT, HilaryS1947, dianeham

7

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

55,083 members

490 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: souloftherose, JqnOC, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, raperper

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by Charlotte Brontë

59,382 members

924 reviews

4.2

5 Members: Pencils, souloftherose, ahef1963, HilaryS1947, TheCottonShoe

9

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,669 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Mithalogica, Dilara86, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,008 members

158 reviews

3.9

5 Members: enrique_molinero, aulsmith, SonoranDreamer, ByronDB, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

60,404 members

892 reviews

4

5 Members: enrique_molinero, SonoranDreamer, kdemetter, HilaryS1947, TheCottonShoe

12

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,947 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: hipdeep, enrique_molinero, Cynfelyn, ahef1963, HilaryS1947

13

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (with Alice's Adventures Under Ground)

by Lewis Carroll

2,019 members

18 reviews

4.1

5 Members: ahef1963, TheTowers, HilaryS1947, dianeham, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

25,136 members

377 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Oct326, Percevan, Cynfelyn, ByronDB

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by Jostein Gaarder

18,800 members

289 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Percevan, ahef1963, CorinneT, HilaryS1947

16

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: Oct326, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, TheTowers

17

Pride and Prejudice

81,214 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: starfishian, ahef1963, HilaryS1947, TheCottonShoe

18

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,037 members

941 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, paulamaine, dianeham, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Pillars of the Earth

27,400 members

755 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kageeh, JqnOC, ahef1963

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by Kahlil Gibran

14,359 members

169 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Mithalogica, ahef1963, HilaryS1947, dianeham

21

Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

1,973 members

37 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kageeh, lahochstetler, aulsmith

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Don't Eat This Book : Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

by Morgan Spurlock

603 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: SqueakyChu, Matke

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44,992 members

770 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, CorinneT, TheCottonShoe

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,461 members

183 reviews

4.1

3 Members: enrique_molinero, aulsmith, ahef1963

25

The Foundation Trilogy

by Isaac Asimov

6,616 members

84 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Oct326, souloftherose, ahef1963

26

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,607 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, HilaryS1947, ManWithAnAgenda

27

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

8,210 members

202 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Mithalogica, kdemetter

28

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,170 members

403 reviews

4.1

2 Members: vancouverdeb, HilaryS1947

29

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,496 members

125 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Oct326, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA

by Richard C. Lewontin

509 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: estern, Oct326

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

134,626 members

2,065 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: JqnOC, ahef1963, ByronDB,ManWithAnAgenda

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,075 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, HilaryS1947,Percevan

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The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition

by Stephen William Hawking

1,769 members

15 reviews

4.2

2 Members: anthony_barker, souloftherose

34

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,726 members

290 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, HilaryS1947

35

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,502 members

478 reviews

4.1

2 Members: CorinneT, HilaryS1947

36

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,986 members

724 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Cynfelyn, kdemetter

38

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

13,942 members

351 reviews

4.2

2 Members: lahochstetler, SonoranDreamer

39

Peterson Field Guides to Eastern Birds, 4th Edition

by Roger Tory Peterson

3,537 members

27 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, Matke

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by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

41

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

4,576 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kageeh, aulsmith

42

304 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: starfishian, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Octavia E. Butler

2,592 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,217 members

709 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Mary McCarthy

2,340 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Dilara86, HilaryS1947

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by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,778 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Mithalogica, Oct326

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by Joseph Heller

40,182 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, dianeham

48

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,677 members

561 reviews

4.1

Member: starfishian

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Les Misérables

26,438 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: CorinneT

50

Assassin's Apprentice

12,614 members

287 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

51

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

2,876 members

72 reviews

4.1

Member: Percevan

52

The Famished Road

2,382 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

53

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

by V. S. Ramachandran

905 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

54

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

by Gil Courtemanche

734 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: 4leschats

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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

by Douglas W. Tallamy

580 members

15 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: SqueakyChu

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by Isaac Asimov

15,111 members

271 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

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by Lloyd Alexander

5,021 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

58

Job: A Comedy of Justice

by Robert A. Heinlein

4,268 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: enrique_molinero

59

The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura

2,858 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

60

by Suzette Haden Elgin

1,129 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

61

The Bear That Wasn't

by Frank Tashlin

268 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: starfishian

62

Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo

by Vanessa Woods

224 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

63

Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

by Jack D. Forbes

134 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: SonoranDreamer

64

by Charlotte Brontë

8,849 members

146 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,901 members

84 reviews

4.1

Member: Cynfelyn

66

If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

2,151 members

60 reviews

4.1

Member: CorinneT

67

The Water Is Wide

1,807 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: Matke

68

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

by Tadeusz Borowski

1,598 members

35 reviews

4.2

Member: starfishian

69

A language older than words

by Derrick Jensen

672 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SonoranDreamer

70

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

by David Aaronovitch

564 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aulsmith

71

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

by Natasha Walter

304 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

72

by Dante Alighieri

24,121 members

213 reviews

4.1

Member: Mithalogica

73

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,987 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: Pencils

74

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

4,554 members

56 reviews

4.1

Member: Percevan

75

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

by Daniel C. Dennett

2,939 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

76

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

2,415 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Pencils

77

The Bridge on the Drina

2,396 members

67 reviews

4.2

Member: starfishian

78

Jesus and the Victory of God

by N. T. Wright

1,696 members

10 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: souloftherose

79

In the Eye of the Sun

by Ahdaf Soueif

380 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

80

Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change

by Pema Chödrön

371 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Pencils

81

L'alchimie du bien-être Deuxieme edition: Retrouver l'équilibre en accord avec soi (French Edition)

by Indrajit Garai

1 member

1 review

5

Member: CorinneT

82

22,532 members

398 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: enrique_molinero

83

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

8,127 members

92 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

84

Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charlotte Brontë

1,703 members

16 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: starfishian

85

997 members

54 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

86

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

by Frederick P. Brooks

3,496 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

87

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose

3,161 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: souloftherose

88

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

by Carol Tavris

1,432 members

45 reviews

4.1

Member: Percevan

89

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

by Greil Marcus

1,174 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

90

The Education of a Christian Prince

by Desiderius Erasmus

53 members

1 review

Member: Mithalogica

91

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Cynfelyn

92

The Buddha of Suburbia

by Hanif Kureishi

2,987 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

93

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

by Ina May Gaskin

1,318 members

32 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: hipdeep

94

War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad (Omnibus ed.)

by Christopher Logue

140 members

4 reviews

4.8

Member: Pencils

95

When We Dead Awaken

by Henrik Ibsen

109 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Mithalogica

96

by Orson Scott Card

41,381 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, kdemetter,ManWithAnAgenda

97

by John Wyndham

4,782 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: Cynfelyn

98

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

by Desmond Morris

2,924 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: Oct326

99

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

by John Allen Paulos

2,192 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: souloftherose

100

What Is History?

1,981 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: Oct326

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